This Week in Elasticsearch - February 05, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Got slides or videos we should be sharing in This Week in Elasticsearch, let our Community Manager,Leslie Hawthorn, know.

Maggie Nelson on how Findery uses Elasticsearch to solve their unique geo challenges

Where to find Us

Honza Kral and Leslie Hawthorn kick off the FOSDEM 2014 festivities with a talk on all things Elasticsearch, Logstash and Community at the Benelux Meetup

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Germany

Britta Weber will present on Customizing Your Scoring Using function_score at the Munich Search Meetup on February 5th. Sebastian Paetzold from ysura will speak on Permission Management with Elasticsearch. Doors open at 7 PM.

Elasticsearch will have a booth at the OOP Konferenz in Munich Feb. 4-6th.

United States

The Elasticsearch DC Meetup will get together tonight, February 5th at 6:30 PM. Attendees will be treated to an in depth look at how NGP VAN uses Elasticsearch.

The next Elasticsearch Boston Meetup will take place on February 6th. Attendees will be treated to an open Q&A from Elasticsearch creator Shay Banon, plus a series of lightning talks. Doors open at 6 PM.

Leslie Hawthorn, Kevin Kluge and Jordan Sissel will all be presenting at the 12th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, a.k.a. SCALE 12x. If you can't catch the talks, make sure to stop by our table to say hello. SCALE runs from February 21st-23rd.

The second Los Angeles Elasticsearch Meetup will be held on Friday, February 21st at SCALE 12x. Join us for casual discussion and refreshments. You don't have to be attending SCALE to come to the meetup, but the organizers have offered a generous discount on conference passes to meetup attendees. We'll get together at starting at 7 PM.

The Elasticsearch Denver Meetup group will be getting together on February 24th to hear about Automattic's use of Elasticsearch. Doors open at 6:30 PM and Elasticsearch core developer Lee Hinman will also be on hand for Q&A.

We've set the date for the first ever Elasticsearch Portlandia Meetup on March 4th. Steve Mayzak will cover Elasticsearch 1.0 - Whats new and how are people using it?Our community manager, Leslie Hawthorn, will also be visiting from Europe. She's looking forward to hearing from everyone about what could be done to make your lives as Elasticsearch users better.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: